Word: finest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night. All across the war-weary country, South Vietnamese were sleeping off the revelry of Tet, Viet Nam's long est and happiest holiday. This three-day Tet had passed peacefully, unlike the nightmare of the year before, when more than 36,000 of the Communists' finest assault troops smashed into South Viet Nam's cities and towns. Then suddenly, in a whoosh of rockets and thud of mortars, the nightmare seemed about to begin again. Barely 19 hours after they had ended a self-imposed, week-long Tet truce, Communist gunners launched coordinated rocket and mortar...
...afford to interrupt them. The result, says Melchior, is that "the breed has practically vanished." Most of the tenors who attempt these heroic roles are a bit jugendlich (youthful-sounding). Meantime, great dramatic sopranos like Birgit Nilsson are Isoldes in search of Tristans, and some of Wagner's finest music is scant ed in the repertory...
...however, he was a big black, beautifully dressed natural freak who held his guitar like he loved it, and much to my pleasure (and the displeasure of the audience of teenyboppers and Yalies who were screamnig for "Purple Haze") he stood up there and played some of the finest Blues sets I have ever heard. Well it wasn't exactly Blues; it was Hendrix...
There is no doubt that Bruce has found his groove this year. Although at first shaky with his defensemen, Chris Gurry and Terry Flaman, the three have settled down to form one of the best hockey defenses in the East. "Bruce has developed into one of the finest goalies I have ever seen," Kinasewich said. "He has that innate ability that every great goalie has which can't be taught. If we ever had a goal-tender who could beat Dryden, it's Durno...
...horizons of what we can do are expanding," Lewis said. "Our feelings toward BAD have not changed, but they have refined--we better understand what we are doing. We want to expand the cultural horizons of the city; we want to print the finest reviews; we want whatever can be done with honesty and integrity...